1940 Global Table

I wanted to show my table I built. ï¿½ It is for A&A 1940 2nd Ed. (Global). ï¿½ I was inspired by some of the other tables I’ve seen, but one thing I wanted to incorporate is rigid borders so all boards are locked in. ï¿½ I also thought it was important to have all the ancillary stuff on the sides, as opposed to the front, which is common. ï¿½ The board is already so big that to reach from front to back is difficult enough as it is. ï¿½ I made a “roll box” for the dice, plus you’ll see the battle strips, casualty zone and R&D board are framed in as well. ï¿½ Separate compartments for every power’s units, plus two small ones for chips and IC/bases. ï¿½ I also included underneath a shelf for the two game boxes, rule books, etc. which work like drawers. And last, but not least, in the front, a ledge to lean on and place any adult beverages, as well as a 2-inch high rail to make sure no drinks are spilled on the precious board. ï¿½ I was originally going to build a full-on table with legs, but then I decided I needed to leave the option to put it away easily, so I decided just to build a tabletop and place it on two sawhorses. ï¿½ It works great. ï¿½ It looks great. ï¿½ Hopefully I attached the pictures correctly.

@cyanight:
Everyone has their own unique way of painting the pieces.Â No matter how we paint the pieces they must still be playable within the game.
And the nice difference between game sculpts and real military equipment is that sculpts are rarely lost or damaged in combat. If that wasn’t the case, people might actually hesitate to risk sending their painted sculpts into battle on the game map, given the large amount of time they’ve spent on customizing them.

This will be the last pictures until the end of the year.
The US EUROPEAN FORCES will be the next set that graces my map, followed by the GERMANS, but it will be awhile before the Axis can get on the board.
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures.
Until next time.
Over and out!

Thanks LHoffman,
Your appreciation is my inspiration… because I refuse to use a sheet of glass, my research has lead me to a material called styrene (google it) which is a type of plastic sheet that can be directly printed on. All indications point to this method being the last alternative to glass and although it cost around $240, it looks to be my best option. Even after flushing $300 so far in a crappy print, and installation complications, I’m happy with this new direction if it turns out the way I’ve been told it will. Basically it’s flexible plastic, so it should lie flat without air pockets getting trapped, and because it doesn’t get laminated, the colors should be slightly brighter. If it is sensitive to scratching than there is a clear film sheet by 3M I can look into, that’s where I’m at right now.

And actually, here’s a supplementary idea. Since the I.D. charts contain a silhouette for every nation-specific sculpt, what you could do is produce a nation-specific version of this chart for all of the player powers, with the name and symbol of each power added at the top. The textual data would remain the same in every chart; all you’d need to do is is replace the unit images.

@General:
I love the level of detail to the map, have you considered using the Star of India from the British Raj for UK Pacific territories?
Glad you liked the custom map. No, the idea of giving the British Pacific territories distinct roundels hadn’t occurred to me. It’s a concept that has potential advantages, for instance because it would highlight Britain’s two-income situation in Global, but on the other hand I like having a single British roundel for the whole world because it highlights the extent of the British Empire. (A grade-school child back in the1930s or so allegedly wrote in an assignment that “The sun never sets on the British Empire because the sun sets in the west and the Empire is in the east.”)